Covid inquiry: 'The way people died — just lock them in a room and hope for the best — is inhumane'

Some of the bereaved families who lost loved ones during the pandemic have urgent questions

Kieran Brady wholost his father James 'Jimmy' to covid on January 2021 in a nursing home. 'What he was going through I will never get out of my head.' Photo: Patrick Browne

Kieran Brady sat with his father as he died in a nursing home in January 2021 while his mother watching through Whatsapp video urged him repeatedly to "keep holding his hand.” 

James Brady, who had dementia, was in a Wexford nursing home since the summer of 2020. Window visits were allowed at first. However, when he caught covid over Christmas, even those were stopped with no visits until shortly before his death.